Valentin Ćorić

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Valentin Ćorić at the ICTY (2017)

Valentin Ćorić (born June 23, 1956 in Čitluk in the VR Bosnia and Herzegovina , Yugoslavia ) is a former Bosnian-Croatian civil servant in the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna . He was sentenced to 16 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes and crimes against humanity .

Life

Ćorić was born on June 23, 1956 in Paoč near Čitluk in the VR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He completed his engineering degree and worked in the Čitluk bauxite mines . Ćorić later switched from mining to the military, becoming the commander of the training barracks in Krvavice , Croatia. In 1992 he was appointed Deputy Security Officer and Commander of the Military Police of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO). At the end of 1993 he switched to politics and became Minister of the Interior of the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna .

accusation

According to the indictment, Ćorić was until around April 1994 "a member of a shadow organization whose aim was to create an ethnically pure territory that was to be annexed and merged into Greater Croatia". The court accused Ćorić of "inciting political, ethnic and religious hatred while using violence, intimidation and terror (mainly through mass arrests in which people were killed) to ethnically evict non-Croatians from the HVO-controlled area". He was sentenced to 16 years in prison . The charges were:

  • nine cases of serious violations of the Geneva Conventions (willful killing; inhuman treatment (sexual assault); illegal deportation of civilians; illegal rendition of civilians; illegal detention of civilians; inhuman treatment (conditions of detention); general inhuman treatment; willful destruction of property the was not justified by military necessity; willful appropriation of property that was not justified by military necessity.)
  • nine cases of violations of the laws or customs of war (cruel treatment (conditions of detention), illegal work, willful destruction of cities or villages that was not justified by military necessity, destruction or willful damage to institutions of religion or education, looting of public or private property, unlawful attack on civilians, unlawful causing terrorism against civilians, cruel treatment)
  • eight cases of crimes against humanity (persecution on political, racial and religious grounds; murder; rape; deportation; inhuman acts (forced relocation); imprisonment; inhuman acts (conditions of detention)).

Web links

Commons : Valentin Ćorić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.trial-ch.org/en/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/valentin_coric_496.html Profile, trial-ch.org; accessed 10 April 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c Profile , haguejusticeportal.net; accessed 3 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic - Initial Appearance | Tribunal pénal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Prlic et al. Initial Indictment. February 12, 2005, accessed May 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ćorić, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION former Minister of the Interior of the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Čitluk , Yugoslavia